10 things you need to know for Thursday

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:

1. CONGRESS TO GET MEMOS ON TARGETING AMERICANS. Obama told the Justice Department to turn over classified documents describing the administration's rationale for drone strikes against U.S. citizens working with al-Qaida. OBAMA-TARGETING AMERICANS

2. CIA SECRETS MAY BE SECRET NO MORE. Senators at Brennan's confirmation hearing today are likely to delve into drones, covert bases and interrogation techniques. BRENNAN-CIA

3. VILLAGES WIPED OUT FROM SOUTH PACIFIC TSUNAMI. At least nine bodies, including a child's, were found in the sodden wreckage on the Solomon Islands, and five villages were decimated. SOUTH PACIFIC-EARTHQUAKE

5. AUTOPSY SCHEDULED FOR ALABAMA BUNKER SUSPECT. Authorities found no other explosives in the bunker where Jimmy Lee Dykes held a 5-year-old hostage. ALABAMA BUNKER STANDOFF

6. GEARING UP FOR FIGHT OVER BOY SCOUTS' GAY BAN. The organization delayed its decision whether to throw out its policy excluding gays until May. BOY SCOUTS-GAYS

7. HOW A MEXICAN WOMAN AVOIDED HARM IN ACAPULCO ATTACK. The masked men who raped six Spanish tourists in a beach house spared her because of her nationality. MEXICO-SPAIN TOURISTS ATTACKED

8. NORTHEAST BRACES FOR BIG BLIZZARD. The snow will start Friday morning and could dump up to 2 feet of snow in New England, which has seen mostly bare ground. NORTHEAST SNOW

9. SALE PRICE OF A BASEBALL CARD FOUND AT A YARD SALE. The 148-year-old card of the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club sold at a Maine auction for $92,000. RARE BASEBALL CARD

10. WHAT NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR'S SAID TO DOC WHO WARNED ABOUT HIS WEIGHT. "Shut up," Chris Christie told ex-White House physician Connie Mariano, who said she worried he would die in office. CHRISTIE-WEIGHT